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For what is office, compared to the priceless opportunity, nobly employed, of standing as a buttress for human rights?
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of using one's position to support human rights rather than merely holding office.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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